Re: repairing damage to package manager
Hi Jonathan,
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:40:52PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:30:31AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > dpkg-reconfigure doesn't help, nor dpkg -i apt-get.
>
> "apt-get" exists in the "apt" package, but "dpkg -i" takes an argument to
> a local .deb archive, not a package name. Try downloading a .deb of apt
> for your version of debian and architecture (e.g. amd64 for stable/jessie
> => https://packages.debian.org/jessie/apt bottom of the page) and running
>
> dpkg -i <path to downloaded .deb file>
>
> This might fail with missing dependencies. If so, you can attempt to manually
> download them too, and then retry, this time adding the dependencies to the
> dpkg invocation:
>
> dpkg -i <path to .deb file 1> <path to .deb file 2>
>
> This may need repeating for missing dependencies for the second .deb.
>
> If you still have your install media handy, mounting them might speed this
> process up as the necessary .deb files will all be on there (modulo security
> updates since then).
>
> But you might tire of playing whack'a'mole with missing .deb dependencies with
> the above technique: it's hard to say how many there might be or how long this
> process might take, to weigh up whether to do this or just reinstall.
>
I presume you are suggesting using wget to retrieve the missing
packages after identifying their URL's?
I appreciate your suggestion, I'll see what I can do.
Chuck
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